Example sentences of "go [adv] [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he goes on pushing deadlines , working all-nighters , rewriting , calling back , quite apart from the copious travelling and general fretting that is a Sunday writer 's regular burden . |
| 2 | It 's a help , but not a complete solution to the problem because once chlorine has been released in the stratosphere , it persists for many years and goes on destroying ozone . |
| 3 | Surely , the longer an animal lives , and the longer it goes on producing offspring , the more genes it transmits to future generations ? |
| 4 | Or if the horse has been jabbed in the mouth when it is being mounted , it goes on expecting pain in the mouth whenever it is mounted . |
| 5 | Environmental regulation has focused on other forms of pollution ; only a third of air pollution expenditure goes on removing particles and most of this is spent on catching larger particles , those that are more than 10 microns in diameter . |
| 6 | Insecticides used for control are designed to have a residual action which goes on killing cockroaches several months after the initial application . |
| 7 | Every time we have any spare money , it has to go on pigging coal . |
| 8 | Every time we have any spare money , it has to go on pigging coal . |
| 9 | The brokers note that representations are being made to the Treasury to enable USM companies that switched to the Official List to go on enjoying inheritance tax relief by extending this relief to all family-owned companies . |
| 10 | If the baby needs to go on taking medicines or vitamins , ask the doctor to prescribe something that does not contain any colouring or other unnecessary ingredients . |
| 11 | The Celts would have been allowed to go on collecting mistletoe in their forests . |
| 12 | Why are they allowing the ratepayers and taxpayers of this country to go on throwing money down the drain ? |
| 13 | One can not really believe that the whole of the world is going to go on maximizing production of agricultural produce , when — I much is already destined to end up as mountains of grain , or butter , or meat — or lakes of wine or olive oil . |
| 14 | It would be possible to go on multiplying instances of the adaptation of the piano idiom to that of the string orchestra , but space is limited , and the above examples will have to suffice . |
| 15 | Rain saw they were still to go on pretending Foucard and Denis understood no English . |
| 16 | In the record company — the one division of the company which supported the rest — staff had been made redundant , yet money had been found to go on buying nightclubs , expand the empire . |
| 17 | John said , ‘ I do want to go on helping people . ’ |
| 18 | It was clear the reason he was happy to go on discussing Cecil King with you was that you had taken and shown a genuine interest in his regional tour … |
| 19 | To assuage the tension resulting from linguistic warfare , you have to go on humouring group A or group B or group C or group D , and conceivably all of them together . |
| 20 | By a neat twist , schools which can not recruit and retain staff are unlikely to go on recruiting pupils . |
| 21 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
| 22 | What should I do if I want to go on losing weight ? |
| 23 | It may be hard for them to go on giving warmth and understanding love amidst the euphoria and excitement that can surround the search for the birth parents and their possible discovery . |
| 24 | And containing it is extremely expensive and I personally feel that it 's wrong to expect the community at large to go on paying week after week , month after month , year after year er in order to contain a problem which through no fault of its own belongs to the soccer . |
| 25 | We … we used to go on rambling weekends , with a group of ramblers . |
| 26 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 27 | She determine not to be put off by her first failure , but to go on doing things to Mary Lou so that in the end the class would have to put the tricks down to Alicia and Daryl . |
| 28 | And while he says that he is prepared to go on doing musicals until he has one that really works , he would probably not agree with that picture of himself as fighting against the tide . |
| 29 | Usually it 's fine to go on making love during your pregnancy . |
| 30 | He joked about having to go on making speeches without my help … |